The Giant Planet of Money

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Adapted from a comment I just left in colorwheel's LJ, but which more of y'all may be interested in:

NPR just launched a new blog-n-podcast called Planet Money whose topic is what you'd expect. I find it strangely reassuring that they figure that now's as good a time to launch the thing as any, what with all the everything going on.

The new show is itself kind of a spinoff of an excellent This American Life episode called "The Giant Pool of Money" from last spring, which did a great job explaining the crisis' core catalyst (the housing crap) in grokkable language and metaphor.

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[keimel.livejournal.com]

Heh, we have an actual published CD of "Giant Pool of Money" that has been making the rounds in the office. I had it, just gave it back to someone else to give it to someone else.

It's certainly getting mileage.